Dance Gang

Dance Gang is an American performance art duo made up of Will Rawls and Kennis Hawkins started in 2006 in New York City.

About

The two, both over six feet tall, met in 2004 as fellow dancers in Shen Wei Dance Arts and then started their own project. Dance Gang began with playful dance interventions in public spaces and then continued into short and full-length site-specific choreographed works.

Selected performances

They performed an hour-long site-specific work, "Dog Free" in the River to River Festival in New York City in 2009, "Dog Breaks" at Dance Theatre Workshop, some interventions into the artworks of Tino Sehgal, Pierre Huyghe, Cevdet Erek and Ryan Gander during Documenta (13), in Kassel, Germany, shorter works for projects by Neal Medlyn: a performance to Beyoncé's 'All the Single Ladies' at Joe's Pub, and a dance to Kanye West's "Bad News" track from 808 and Heartbreaks, also a work at the Ise Cultural Foundation as part of "In Pursuit: Art on Dating," and others.

References

  1. ↑ Rocco, Claudia La (2007-12-09). "Hollywood Windfall? Take It to the Streets". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-09-22.
  2. ↑ "WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT | New York Post". 2009-07-17. Retrieved 2026-09-22.
  3. ↑ "* OFFOFFOFF dance review NEAL MEDLYN AND DANCE GANG by Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Will Rawls with Dance Gang: Will Rawls and Kennis Hawkins
    Neal Medlyn: with Carmine Covelli and Farris Craddock"    . www.offoffoff.com. Archived from the original on 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2026-09-22.
  4. ↑ Rocco, Claudia La. "Dance in Review". query.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2026-09-22.
  5. ↑ OurHitParade (2009-12-18). OUR HIT PARADE - Dance Gang - Single Ladies - DANCE 12/09. Retrieved 2026-09-22 – via YouTube.
  6. ↑ "Kanye West Watches While Naked Woman, Performance Artists Pay Tribute To 808s & Heartbreak - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV". www.mtv.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-06. Retrieved 2026-09-22.
  7. ↑ "Past Exhibition:Breaking the 4th Wall: Hors Cadrage". www.isefoundation.org. Retrieved 2026-09-22.